Quotes About Accountability

To his brother Edgar he confided, "I suffer from the usual difficulty that besets the higher commander—things can be ordered and started, but actual execution at the front has to be turned over to someone else.

In a political democracy, every soldier's death is a public event. Every soldier's death ought to provoke the hard question: Why did he die?

The latter could be attributed to the two owners of the company, who were firm believers in management by harassment, or the "seagull system" of management (if something went wrong, the owners would fly in, make a lot of noise, and dump all over everyone!).

The Lord does not forgive excuses, He forgives sin.

if you get distracted from doing your job, you can't perform. And remember this—there is very little sympathy out there for people who cannot perform.

To bring the Church back to where God wants it to be will require great courage on the part of God's leaders, His spokesmen. They must be willing to acknowledge the present sad condition of large portions of the Church. Then they must rise up and both publicly and privately refute every form of deception with a steadfast stance on God's truth — regardless of the consequences to them personally.

The dangerous part about excuses is that a lot of them make sense.

A true friend is someone who pushes you and encourages you to become the best version of yourself. They don't enable your bad habits and tendencies.

Forgiveness must be immediate, whether or not a person asks for it. Trust must be rebuilt over time. Trust requires a track record.

When you make that crossover from life to real life, when you're not treated as a child anymore but as a man, and you are no longer given the benefit of the doubt, it takes some courage to face that.

Whenever you make an agreement with yourself, you have to stick to it.

Before deciding on a decision, determine how well you are willing to live with it.

People who don't keep promises, can't be trusted.

Ask others the same questions you ask of yourself: "Am I a good leader? Am I trustworthy? Am I inspiring?

You always remember the words that come back to bite you in the ass, no matter how much you'd like to forget them.

If I hold myself accountable, no obstacle is insurmountable.

Congress has a deep, vested interest in its own inefficiency.

Presiding over the "genuine blanket

Choose one area in which you have been out of integrity. Identify your fear that keeps you from telling the truth or doing the right thing. Reveal this situation to a safe person. Then go and tell the truth or do what you have to do to make the situation right. Tell yourself you can handle it. Since telling the truth may create a crisis for you or others, have faith that everyone involved will survive this crisis.

I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.

Scripture also teaches that human beings are morally responsible creatures

The man who can smile when things go wrong has thought of someone else he can blame it on.

Hoping and Wishing are excuses for not Doing.

There are no victims, only volunteers.